Example sentences of "[pers pn] seven [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even if someone should sin against you seven times a day , Jesus says you should forgive those seven times ( Luke 17:4 ) .
2 ‘ And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me , but walk contrary unto me , ’ he read out , ‘ then will I walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I , even I , will chastise you seven times for your sins .
3 We will give you seven horses , fifteen oil
4 Mistletoe is very scarce and dear this year , and I can offer you seven pounds for it . ’
5 allow you seven minutes in initially also and so
6 I 'll have you to a widow in recompense that you should give me thanks for and make you seven years younger , and a rich one .
7 ‘ I could give you seven days CB instead . ’
8 He says no , he says we 've thought about it , I says well you really ought to have it I says if you 're dial dialling a lot of erm , cos they dial a lot of these insurance companies and er mortgage lenders , the head offices , they 're always out in Ottingham , I said the Mercury pin number only cost you seven pound fifty a year , I says you think you can save that in a week so er ha so erm he was on about it , he says who 's the cheapest for that ?
9 And while were doing that , we should thank Mary for her seven years stint that she 's done on .
10 He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty .
11 He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty .
12 His first round 79 left him seven strokes off the pace set by MacPherson and two other southern players , and when he added a second round 75 , he was nine strokes behind his Cheshire team mate Dave Watson of Helsby , who started 73–72 .
13 It seemed a forlorn hope that any taxi-driver , especially with the limitation of petrol-rationing , should consider a fare which would take him seven miles out of the town on New Year 's Eve , but incredible luck was with us !
14 The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement .
15 Then we will raise against him seven shepherds ,
16 Well if he had X to the seventh that would have given him seven X to the sixth
17 I mean er when they told the tales of the of the seven winds and the was it seven winds ?
18 Or was it seven foot ?
19 The Gunners ' Premier League challenge is virtually a write-off after the Bank Holiday Monday defeat at Aston Villa made it seven games without a win .
20 I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ?
21 PORTADOWN blitzed Ballymena to make it seven wins in seven games — and did n't play particularly well .
22 He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’
23 If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there .
24 If we were doing it seven days a week , fair enough , you 'd probably need a chainsaw but anything , the loppers or the handsaw .
25 We do it seven days a , seven , seven times a day , seven times a week , in the year nineteen ninety two
26 The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier .
27 Is n't it seven years ?
28 A small ensemble of four viole da braccio plus continuo suggests the trot , canter , and gallop of Tancred 's horse , the fall of night , the clash of swords , the fury of the combatants ( by rapidly repeated chords , an instrumental effect which disconcerted the players although Biagio Marini had employed it seven years before ) , 2l and their infighting with sword-pommels , helmets , and shields ( by another novel effect : pizzicato chords ) .
29 Scottish striker Trevor Smith scored his customary goal to make it seven goals in seven games for him — but it could have been eight .
30 Initially , in her sworn depositions , Hildenbrand apparently said that the delay in payment to the gallery was due to an unnamed Japanese intermediary ; Feigen states that she then ‘ admitted in sworn testimony that she had perjured herself , which is a felony , and that the entity owned by Lanzone and herself had in fact received the money $600,000 of it seven months earlier , and then $200,000 and that the money had been spent on Lanzone 's home mortgage and restaurant expenses ’ .
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